Archive for April, 2008

metaphor
14 April, 2008

Clutter (room-, desk-, and otherwise-) is like arterial plaque in the coronary vessels of my productivity.
… and that tells you the mental sharpness with which I’m operating right now. I don’t know what the problem is exactly.

brief interview:
11 April, 2008

Q: When did Hong Kong start to feel like home?
A: When I stopped running to the front row of the second deck of the bus every time I got on.

change, then a rant about basketball
10 April, 2008

and by that, I mean “seasonal change”. Though according to KMT Bus TV, it’s still spring, I’ve had to run my A/C at night to clear some of the humidity out of the air in my room. Which means it’s only a matter of time before I have to run the A/C at night because [...]

a spring semester going by even faster than senior year?
9 April, 2008

Indeed, that’s the truth of it. Our schedules were light in january, since the primary school hadn’t finished their winter break and other activities started slow. February was Chinese new year (one week) and a “reading week” (which meant students didn’t show up to anything). March was a two-week easter break. April began with a [...]

only somewhat about recent travel
2 April, 2008

But I will get around to that. In a sentence per each trip:Taiwan was amazing, and they love baseball, democracy, and turnip cakes fried with lard in a way that I found touching and wonderful and delicious.China makes no sense, and I was inordinately bothered by their neglect of maps.
Anyway, I just wanted to thank [...]